Ok, this is what scientists do when they're trying to score some more funding. BEC is very, very hard to work with and only several dozen groups can produce gaseous BECs. The two labs next to ours both work with BEC's and the amount of optics and electronics are mindnumbing. Not to mention the fact that optics and lasers are a notorious bitch to keep aligned and tuned.
This stuff is fascinating but you'll most likely never see a BEC implemented in a consumer device using gasses. Researchers are working on similar problems in the solid state, which could be used in common devices, but there are problems keeping the states coherent.
It would be ironic if gaseous BECs were used because we'd have transitioned from the vacuum tube of old, to solid state transistors, and back again to [quantum] vacuum tubes. good times
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Ok, this is what scientists do when they're trying to score some more funding. BEC is very, very hard to work with and only several dozen groups can produce gaseous BECs. The two labs next to ours both work with BEC's and the amount of optics and electronics are mindnumbing. Not to mention the fact that optics and lasers are a notorious bitch to keep aligned and tuned.
This stuff is fascinating but you'll most likely never see a BEC implemented in a consumer device using gasses. Researchers are working on similar problems in the solid state, which could be used in common devices, but there are problems keeping the states coherent.
It would be ironic if gaseous BECs were used because we'd have transitioned from the vacuum tube of old, to solid state transistors, and back again to [quantum] vacuum tubes. good times